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Your point about managing the image resources associated with the markdown is an important one. Rather than one folder per note, the existing approach is compat

Your point about managing the image resources associated with the markdown is an important one. Rather than one folder per note, the existing approach is compatible with a {file-slug}.resources/ naming scheme. Sounds like a good opportunity for another plugin.

rcarmo 6y ago
That approach won’t fix the “thousands of files in a folder” problem. It will just add another: “thousands of subfolders”. A full hierarchical approach (not just single level) is much better (believe me, I’ve been doing this for 16 years and have nearly 8000 notes/posts at taoofmac.com).
- sradman 6y ago
  Brownfield trade-offs; the current tool is agnostic about directory structure. There are other trade-offs: simple links/URLs, the requirement for opinionated helpers/generators, and the extra layer that is not required for notes that never add attachments. I’m just throwing ideas out there; I don’t have a horse in the race.
- stareatgoats 6y ago
  FWIW a hierarchy of notes can only reflect one dimension. But notes typically have multiple dimensions associated with them, and there is (in reality) no canonical hierarchy. Which means you will regularly end up in arguments with yourself about where in the hierarchy to put the note, unless your hierarchy is of a exceedingly simple kind, and serves but one single purpose. In fact, insisting to placing notes in a single hierarchy only serves to support a common but incorrect notion IMO: that things have but one single, universally valid, most important attribute. Of course no one will seriously argue that this is the case, but the notion is nonetheless ubiquitous because of our need to simplify, probably.
- eitland 6y ago
  > A full hierarchical approach (not just single level) is much better (believe me, I’ve been doing this for 16 years and have nearly 8000 notes/posts at taoofmac.com). I think it would be better if you recognized that while this works neatly for you, some of us have other systems that work nicely for us. Tags and search in particular are really empowering to me because I can file things in multiple places and find them in all of them - or I can search for multiple tags at once to slice out a subset of my notes or bookmarks.
- gardenfelder 6y ago
  An alternative lies in the concept of harvesting stocks from flows, which suggests starting with a journal, a timestamped, immutable list of notes, both large and small (small is better in many cases); wikilinks within those journal entries form branches, but then notes from the journal can be transcluded into other structures as deemed appropriate.

rcarmo 6y ago

That approach won’t fix the “thousands of files in a folder” problem. It will just add another: “thousands of subfolders”. A full hierarchical approach (not just single level) is much better (believe me, I’ve been doing this for 16 years and have nearly 8000 notes/posts at taoofmac.com).

sradman 6y ago
Brownfield trade-offs; the current tool is agnostic about directory structure. There are other trade-offs: simple links/URLs, the requirement for opinionated helpers/generators, and the extra layer that is not required for notes that never add attachments. I’m just throwing ideas out there; I don’t have a horse in the race.
stareatgoats 6y ago
FWIW a hierarchy of notes can only reflect one dimension. But notes typically have multiple dimensions associated with them, and there is (in reality) no canonical hierarchy. Which means you will regularly end up in arguments with yourself about where in the hierarchy to put the note, unless your hierarchy is of a exceedingly simple kind, and serves but one single purpose. In fact, insisting to placing notes in a single hierarchy only serves to support a common but incorrect notion IMO: that things have but one single, universally valid, most important attribute. Of course no one will seriously argue that this is the case, but the notion is nonetheless ubiquitous because of our need to simplify, probably.
eitland 6y ago
> A full hierarchical approach (not just single level) is much better (believe me, I’ve been doing this for 16 years and have nearly 8000 notes/posts at taoofmac.com). I think it would be better if you recognized that while this works neatly for you, some of us have other systems that work nicely for us. Tags and search in particular are really empowering to me because I can file things in multiple places and find them in all of them - or I can search for multiple tags at once to slice out a subset of my notes or bookmarks.
gardenfelder 6y ago
An alternative lies in the concept of harvesting stocks from flows, which suggests starting with a journal, a timestamped, immutable list of notes, both large and small (small is better in many cases); wikilinks within those journal entries form branches, but then notes from the journal can be transcluded into other structures as deemed appropriate.